Top IT utilities and tools to share
One way to make your job a little easier is to find out which tools other IT pros rely on — and then try them out for yourself. Susan Harkins extracted a list of favorite tools from 13 IT pros, whose roles range from consultant to developer to DBA.
10+ IT pros share the utilities and tools they can’t live without
#1: John Bartow, consultant
#2: Sterling Camden, consultant
#3: John W. Colby, consultant
#4: Donna Cook, applications analyst
#5: Deborah Elam, consultant
#6: Steve Erbach, software development
#7: Arthur Fuller, business analyst
#8: Stuart McLachlan, information services
#9: Karen Rosenstiel, Web developer
#10: Francisco Tapia, database administrator
via techrepublic
Top 15 Security/Hacking Tools & Utilities
1. Nmap
2. Nessus Remote Security Scanner
3. John the Ripper
4. Nikto
5. SuperScan
6. p0f
7. Wireshark (Formely Ethereal)
8. Yersinia
9. Eraser
10. PuTTY
11. LCP
12. Cain and Abel
13. Kismet
14. NetStumbler
15. hping
via darknet